" We arc, Sir, your very hble. servants, " By order, " Nathaxihl WooniiuLL, Tres't." " It is expected that each man furnishes himself " with a good gun and bayonet, tomahawk, knapsack "or haversack, and two bills. But those who are not " able to furnish thenisefves with these arms and ac- " coutrements will be su])plied at the public expense, " for the ])aynient of which small stop])ages will be " made out of their monthly ])ay, till the whole are "paid for; then they are to remain the property of " the men.'" '

Notwithstanding all the inducementis which the Provincial Congress and its various office-seeking recruiting agents could offer, however, the staid and conservative farmers of Westehester-county were slow to enlist into the Continental service -- there had been much diseonti'ntment among those who were in the service, under Colonel llolme.s, in the preceding year;^ and on the return of tho.se malcontents, they had uudoidtledly told the story of their respective grievances to their suri>rised and sympathetic neighbors; besides which hindrance, the conservatism of the County had been too barbarously treated by those who were in rebellion, to j)ermit it to extend to that "common cause" the slightest favor, while the wound.s. which it had thus received were yet bleeiling. It was, indeed, true that Warrants had been .sent with the Circular Letter, in February; and it is undoubtedly true, also, that the favored ones, throughout the County, Warrants in hand and OtHces in prospective, had employed all their powers of conciliation and pereuiision to ensure